Antisemitic expression reached a new low of vulgarity with the dispensing of flyers advertising an Israeli Independence Day event in a high school urinal.

What made matters worse was that the hapless board president’s daughter photographed the dastardly deed and captioned it with the words, “Keep up the good work.”

Reaction was swift, and it looks like the days of James Dugan, president of the board of Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, N.Y., may be numbered. By Tuesday morning, an online petition calling for those responsible to face discipline and for the president to resign had amassed nearly a thousand signatures. By contrast, a petition rejecting such calls had collected just over a hundred.

The school district’s superintendent, Drew Patrick, penned a letter to the community denouncing the incident and declaring his commitment to fight antisemitism.

“We live in a time of rising antisemitism, political polarization, and a degraded civil discourse,” Patrick said. “I want the community to know that we take these complex challenges seriously and work to confront them every single day.”

The school principal likewise addressed the community in a letter, issuing a blistering condemnation of the incident and stating that a thorough investigation was ongoing. He also defended the Israeli Culture Club that had disseminated the flyer.

“The Israeli Culture Club was well within its right to plan this type of an event, for which they sought and received administrative approval,” Bonamo said. “Denigrating the club’s efforts in this way is wholly inconsistent with our values, both as a matter of basic fairness to support appropriate and approved student activities and because these actions constitute antisemitism.”

He implied that the event was completely innocuous, with no connection to current politics, just promising “Israeli food (and pizza), drinks and desserts alongside Israeli music and games.”

Dugan appeared shaken by his daughter’s behavior, addressing it in a public statement.

“Recent events have provided a profound teaching moment for me as a parent and have impacted me and my family,” he said. “As a parent, I will focus on healing my family. But as a school board member, my focus will continue to be on our students, our schools, and our educational program.”

Unfortunately for Dugan, it’s hard to see how he gets through this without his career landing in the toilet.